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president obama says action against syria would be a warning shot not a large scale attack that's as washington sees support for a potential intervention weekend with britain's parliament divided on the issue. critics point to america's own toxic parts from agent orange in vietnam to cia support for saddam's chemical aggression coming up we examine the shifting sands of u.s. foreign policy. and a victim of child abuse in england speaks out as sex offenders are taken off of the police watch list aimed at safeguarding communities from predators.
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like from moscow you're watching argue with me to bomb let's say. the u.s. the president has set a potential bombing campaign against syria would be merely aimed at sending a shot across the ball now to deter the use of chemical weapons barack obama however has yet to decide whether to give the go ahead to the american forces that have conversion or on the syrian coast line military action would be unlikely to get the approval of the u.n. security council with russia and china strongly against artie's advantages you can explain why. the main question is will president obama order an attack on syria despite the u.n. calls to hold fire to wait for the results of the u.n. investigation and as the u.n. secretary general said to give peace a chance we hear the drums of war loud and clear in washington we know that the u.s. has aligned its warships along the syrian coast preparing for a possible attack and yet president obama when he set down for an interview said i
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have not yet made the decision from what he went on to say one should not assume that there will be no strikes take a listen we can take a limited tailored approaches not getting drawn into a long conflict. we send a shot across the bow saying stop doing this that can have a positive in fact on our national security over the long term and may have a positive impact in the sense that chemical weapons are not used again on innocent civilians of course it begs the question what's a tailored approach in an environment of violence civil war where you have sides blaming each other for the horrible crimes that have been and are being committed in syria u.n. inspectors are in the country now investigating the attack that happened this week ago the u.s. the u.k. and france have basically brushed off in advance any results that investigation could bring they basically discredited the u.n.
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fact finding mission and said they know best what happened here's what president obama said about the evidence that they have we do not believe that given the delivery systems using rockets that the opposition could have carried out these attacks we have concluded that the syrian government in fact carry these out and if that's so then there need to be international consequences important to note the u.n. investigation will not determine who used chemical weapons only whether they were used syria says it wants the u.n. to also investigate who carried out the attacks not just whether they were carried out this wednesday the syrian ambassador to the one said syria but also requested one investigation into three more locations where the syrian soldiers inhaled the nerve gas last week on the outskirts of damascus and previously damascus also requested an investigation into the march attacks in qana last cell where chemical weapons were used with evidence indicating that they were used by the rebels but
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the u.s. and its allies have shunned that evidence and generally ignored those attacks russia and china are opposed to any u.n. security council resolution without seeing the results of the u.n. investigation the u.s. the u.k. and france have indicated that they're ready to strike without the one mandate. the russian president said he is opposed to any military intervention in syria that only a diplomatic solution can stop the bloodshed president putin also condemned in the use of chemical weapons by whoever it may be we also heard the russian foreign minister say the fallout from the alleged chemical attack last week is aimed at undermining peace talks in geneva where the two sides of the syrian conflict were supposed to sit down and map out a deal and that meeting was something that russia very much wanted to happen it seems at this point calls to investigate and calls to give diplomacy a chance are falling on deaf ears. media reports suggest president obama is torn between the three scenarios in syria the u.s.
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could offer to strike the unit that they claim tarried out a chemical attack outside damascus last week alternatively chemical weapons facilities could be targeted and a third option is to. buy military expertise one that destroying us as arsenal would be highly dangerous but. there's been no harm to syria's air defense system during this conflict which continues to function quite effectively but if there are nato missile strikes on chemical munitions depots it would cause an explosion and the poisonous substances contained in these weapons will spray onto the ground this would have drastic consequences such as contaminating land and would be a major blow to all forms of life on territory extending far from the strikes if there were air strikes on chemical munitions depots this would be a severe blow to the syrian people but his prime minister david cameron is taking the same whole case stands as the u.s. although i like washington the u.k.
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government has said it will wait to see the findings of u.n. investigators before deciding whether to act but as well as british public opinion goes almost eighty percent against intervention. was this you have to get the mass protests in there in london the accountability in the prime minister's office condemning the government's war talk people waves of protesters with of a message hands of syria a larger share of m.p.'s are threatening to vote against the plan strikes demanding proof that it was really a step behind the chemical attack. with british lawmakers divided over whether to attack syria the u.s. may soon find itself alone in leading the war charge and to make matters worse justifying the strike is proving to be harder than expected no major international body is supporting the attack leaving the u.s. to rely on a moral case for intervention i just worry about my reports and this may be
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difficult scenes of from the report which may affect sensitive u.s. wagging its finger of moral authority the u.s. began laying the groundwork for syrian intervention on monday let me be clear. the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity the obscenity of chemical weapons is something us secretary of state john kerry a vietnam veteran is very familiar with five decades ago america used agent orange during the vietnam war reportedly spraying more than twenty million gallons of the chemical weapon and other herbicides over parts of southern vietnam and along the borders of neighboring laos and cambodia it had the side effects of being terribly you know toxic and it caused lots of birth defects and terrible terrible effects of the genetic nature. exposed to it the herbicides were reportedly contaminated with
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dioxin a deadly compound that remains toxic for decades and causes birth defects cancer and other illnesses the vietnam red cross estimates that agent orange has affected three million people spanning three generations including at least one hundred fifty thousand children born with severe birth defects since the war ended in one nine hundred seventy five the u.s. often and its foreign policy particularly is quick to blame others for things that it itself and does and this is known around the world as the the double standard of the united states the moral and political hypocrisy of washington in iraq america's chemical weapons legacy will be remembered for generations to come since the two thousand and three invasion experts say the number of iraqi children born with birth defects has skyrocketed some babies born without eyes others without limbs in full lucia researchers can't provide statistics saying there's too many cases to
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report scientists link the epidemic to citizen's exposure to white phosphorus and depleted uranium toxic weapons reportedly used by u.s. soldiers who invaded the country all of the genetic damage effects that we see in iraq in my opinion will. caused by iranian weapons depleted uranium weapons and also you know undefeated uranium weapons of a new type and these a really terrible weapons these are all weapons which of absolutely destroyed the genetic integrity of the population of iraq depleted uranium is a radioactive element that engineers say increases the penetration capacity of shells it's believed to have a shelf life of some four billion years and is otherwise known as the silent murder that never stops killing there is a clear reason that the world has banned entirely the use of chemical weapons there is a reason the international community has set a clear standard and why many countries have taken major steps to eradicate these
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weapons while washington continues lecturing damascus a team of u.n. investigators is in syria trying to verify if chemical weapons were used if so what kind in the meantime if the u.s. does launch a unilateral military strike against syria without u.n. approval then the country policing the world will be in clear violation of international law reporting from new york. r.t. let's get more on the plan of bombing campaign with journalist kara nukes felt who's just returned from syria karen in germany says of the chemical cannot go unpunished so why is it willing to join the u.s. and the u.k. in potential. well germany isn't an election campaign and so the subject of a possible attack against syria of course is in the media and of the political side
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discussing it in the media but politicians and also on the america they know very well that the majority of the german people. does not support any military action in syria be it from the german army be trum nato be it from anybody they want a political solution this is a majority opinion in the german population so they talk about it but it's very clear that they cannot support any military strike obama promised that if chemical weapons were used the u.s. would act clearly they have been used and so is it possible for the u.s. to back down now without going ahead without losing face rather. all i think that the u.s. does not really back down they backed down for the moment because it's convenient it's a very smart step by obama to say we have to wait until we have the findings from
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the u.n. inspectors because this is what russia is calling for this is what china is calling for and the majority of the international community the majority of the countries who made a statement on the subject of possible attacks they are calling for. the results of the investigation team and of course ban ki moon and the un mediator for syria lakhdar brahimi all of them called to give more time to the u.n. expect us and they. obama appreciated this in a way but i think he does not back down completely and he made it clear he said there must be an answer a military answer he mans so given all of this i mean if targeting assad's conventional forces will ultimately degrade is fighting a abilities what does not lead him to danny used chemical. weapons and i don't.
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no i don't think that the syrian army will use chemical weapons i think. the government of syria is very aware that this is not well never go unpunished it will have a very bad effect not only on the army but of course on the syrian people and the syrian country i don't think they will in case of attack i don't think they will. retaliate with chemical weapons no i think the result will be more of fractions inside the military situation in syria and of course it will support the jihadist groups and the fighters the islamist fighters if there is any attack which brings out you know which takes the control away from the syrian
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army the jihadists and the islamist groups will get more strong the situation will become more chaotic and. effects will be disastrous effects will be disastrous situation will take a turn journalist karen it looks all day who's just returned from syria giving us her take on the situation thank you. like to germans living in the countryside to speak out against the how king noisy neighbors coming up the scandal over giant wind turbines springing up in people's backyards keeping them awake at night that's just after the break. world. records technology innovation all the years developments around russia we're going to the future of harvard. you know sometimes you see
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a register of more than sixty thousand sex offenders is maintained by police in england and wales to protect people especially children from abuse but dozens have been taken off that list and critics are concerned that this is putting communities at risk as out his public or imports failure to protect vulnerable youngsters can have tragic consequences. a victim of a truly horrific crime as a child paul was sexually abused by a family friend from the age of eight years old his torture continued until he was sixteen so. basically kernel. i lived in constant her of my own mind. sixteen paul managed to turn his life around and now counsels others who like him went through the trauma of sexual abuse many victims say that the knowledge that their former attackers will be under constant police monitoring even when released
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from prison is a reassurance that they won't be able to strike again but over the past year a number of convicted sex offenders have applied to come off the u.k. sex offenders register claiming they no longer pose a threat to society if a serious sex offender serves more than thirty months for their crime the supposed to stay on the register for the rest of their lives police will monitor their whereabouts the inform local schools hospitals and potential employers about their existence within the community bought according to human rights laws it's a breach of criminals rights to keep them on the register indefinitely without the chance of appeal the register is a list that isn't made public detailing for the police all those convicted of a crime under the sexual offenses act in england and wales it includes a range of criminals from convicted rapists and paedophiles to under-age minors who have consensual sex following a change in human rights law last year forty three sex offenders were removed from
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the register after successful appeals i think it's a very perverse understanding of human rights to put sex offenders before their victims before potential victims i think the implications will mean a lot more offending but one children's charity says that the police need to remove those who no longer pose a threat. in order to focus on monitoring the prolific offenders i'm not pretending by the way that victims don't think this is the generally speaking that this would be troubling to them but in terms of my concern of protecting future victims from possible future risk we need the police to concentrate their resources on the guys that have the highest risk if they judge these forty three individuals do not represent a future risk i don't want the police wasting any more time with the former victims a concerned day the list of those taken off the register includes eight rapists and twenty seven child sex attackers people that i thought council with are
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absolutely dumbfounded and they're paranoid is that their views are perpetrating this the net of that list you are reading to mars do you are going back to being that doesn't all that hard work that poor person that she worked so hard to move forward has now just going to have to it's all undone because they've got to go through it again and they've also got to go through the tillman they know that individual could potentially hurt some other child experts in the field of psychology say that questions remain over whether sex offenders can ever be rehabilitated is a prison. where the sense from this treatment program is run on brain who are going to these these these inmates and they said we know what to say we know how to get by we know how we can. what we need to say to prove we are being rehabilitated even if we're not the u.k. home office was into favor of the ruling but the supremes court upheld the human rights of sex offenders looking for a second chance judges referred to article eight of the european convention on
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human rights to creating that even former sex criminals deserve the chance for private and family life she looked in two thousand and ten when the first two people who actually appealed and used the human rights act they were to child sex offenders. it just tells you a lot that these people want of the register a my worry and my concern is the. they work so as to be truthful paul says that his abusive robbed him of his childhood and for a long time the desire to keep on living as well you know i beg to anybody that says that they have a human right just think of your child just think of your grandchild and think how would you feel if that child basically was murdered emotion from such a young age. arty london. right on the website makers and shakers from the aviation the world of flock to russia the moscow region hosts the max a show featuring cutting edge a craft and some spectacular aerobatic of performances head to our website for
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their. nursing all do moves iran prepares to sue the united states will masterminding the one hundred fifty three crew that toppled to ron's democratically elected leadership. and made us thirty in russia's far east of barricades itself against the advancing waters amid the worst flooding to hit the region in a century read more of these stories and more at the at r.t. dot com. and to nuclear hysteria fueled by the twenty eleven a focus human disaster has prompted the german government to phase out atomic power but the filling of the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task there's now a public storm brewing over the wind turbines are springing up all over the country to meet the par shortfall of his people over found out why they're so unpopular. germany's wind farms are spinning out of control that's according to a new generation of don quixote's who feel hung on to dry by
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a lack of regulation on where windmills can be placed yes michael it's a nice thought that it's turned into a nightmare for us we came here fourteen years ago and there were just two small wind turbines two years later the reform team since then another sixteen have gone up we moved here for tranquility and they have taken man away from us one of the main problems for people living in this area is the she assignees of the new turbines that overshadow their homes come on in the north of going to have been from march until the end of july we have a constant flickering in our kitchens it's very unpleasant you don't even want to breakfast there. germany has plans to increase the amount of energy drawn from the wind almost three fold over the coming years modern wind turbines are around two hundred meters tall that's roughly double the height of the statue of liberty and
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they're springing up all across the german countryside this is seen previously nonpolitical people become activists trying to fight against a green energy lobby they feel is out of control and against turbines that they say are causing real damage to human health. without these low frequency sounds or just constantly in your head and you feel it throughout your entire body when i can fall asleep it wakes me up in the night sometimes it feels like you can freeze i have a common playing i'm not going to sleep when they're going around it's like there's permanent movement in my peripheral vision i work in this field and i understand that such movement has a real psychological effect on people it's not just that they're told and noisy these massive new neighbors are also having a huge effect on house prices rocco is trying. to move away from the turbines his house is being for sale for the last five years without success some time i've
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already calculated them into the asking price and if not half the price off i've had around fifty people come and look but no takers there's no concrete law in germany restricting where wind turbines can be built meaning in some cases they can spring up just two hundred fifty meters from residential areas with the four months of life. we can be like this forever i don't want to leave but these noises make me sick but they have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cried those cries on being heard in the corridors of power though all the major parties in the upcoming election are stressing their commitment continuing germany's race towards renewables which means more wind mills peter all of a r.t. chairman. other news imbrie from around the world now a u.s. army psychiatrist who fatally shot thirteen soldiers at the fort hood military base
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in two thousand and nine has been sentenced to death by lethal injection more than thirty personnel were injured in the attack and a doll hasan later said he went on the rampage in retaliation against u.s. wars in the muslim world last time the u.s. army executed one of its saying was more than fifty years ago. gay rights activists have dumped coca-cola on new york's times square in response to the company's sponsorship of the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi it's all part of a wave of protests against the law banning homosexual propaganda to under eighteen's caused by russia in june. groups have branded the legislation discriminatory and called for an olympic boycott. in the as in time province of a near can the thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in front of the regional congress police had to barricade the entrance of the building and used tear gas to disperse at the rocks throwing crowds protesters away and good by plans
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to allow shale gas exploration in the region he pointed to the home doing that they could do to the environment and to local indigenous communities. and up next it's off financial show with the cars are reports coming up next. so the historic and for many americans tragic ruling in a bradley manning case just got a lot weirder because he has declared that he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named chelsea well i'm glad his lawyer got him to keep this revelation to himself until the end of the trial but said he really should have pushed for him to keep quiet about this just a bit longer while you were asked because if there is one thing i know about the mainstream media is that the second sex is involved everything else is totally
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becomes a distant second case in point what is the legacy of bill clinton is that the job murderer who are sure to nafta no is it a violent foreign policy throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's of locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the lead. important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. right on the sea. search trick. and i think the trick.
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on our reporters twitter. instagram. to be in the. lead. welcome to the kaiser report on max ties are texas totally frat. texas is so fracs some towns will soon be running out of water and now the united kingdom wants to create its own fracking mess yes the u.k.
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blew through its front the north sea oil at all sold it all time lows and now wants to blow through its clean water table just when fresh h two o. is becoming more and more scarce know there's no escaping the sinkholes of stupid opening up around us as governments and the corporations target the dumbest common denominators around us who always vote for more debt more housing bubbles more wars more genetically modified food more tar sands more fracking more more more everything that will sink this all into a bottomless pit of stupid they'll vote for sink holes of stupid. well max you know a sinkhole suddenly own pains and everything just you know collapses i love those ideas on your you know you are scary because that's my fear going to disappear into a sinkhole apparently in florida in china there's many well you have no option nowadays because propagandists and government and the corporations target the
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stupid electorate who say ok why not so they'll say ok why not why not get rid of glass steagall so we can have more of the quiddity in the system and expand the economy and of course until it all collapses as we saw in the two thousand and eight crash you have the same thing everywhere you look whether it's genetically modified food or fukushima that was like some stupid people being sold on this idea that we could have free infinite energy with no cost. being plucked were plucked were completely blocked were being plucked and were being plucked of our senses are being plucked of our network for being plucked out of our food or being plucked of our water pluck pluck pluck to look at this this is your future oh. well that looks like a genetically modified.

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